Toothbrush container



July 15 1924.

C. BASH TOOTHBRUSH CONTAINER Filed Jan. 3.0 1925 (Ynez/r2166 561/570, by 71,215 a/fii'y.

Patented July 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES 1,501,835 PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BASH, OF BBOOKLINE, IASSACHUBETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF CHARLES HERRICK, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

TOOTHBBUSE CONTAINER.

Application filed January 10, 1923. Serial No. 611,873.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, CHARLES Basn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, in the count of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, ave invented new and useful Improvements in Toothbrush Containers, .of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a container for tooth brushes.

The object of the invention is to provide a container which will hold one or more tooth brushes firmly in position and which will enclose the bristle portion of the brush to keep it clean and free from dirt.

The invention consists particularly in a tooth brush container with deodorizing 'material located therein and means to position a tooth brush in said container, said deodorizing material being preferably posi tioned in said container by means of a orous member, upon which the deodorizing material, in liquid form is poured and by which it is absorbed.

The invention further consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly inted out in the claims thereof.

Re erring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a container embodying my invention with a tooth brush illustrated positioned therein and with the door opened.

.Fig.. 2 is a sectional elevation line 22, Figure 1.

Fig. 3 isa plan of one of the tooth brush positioning brackets with a portion of the casing in section.

Fig. 4 is a rspective view of the porous member w ich contains the deodorizing material.

Like numerals refer to like arts throughout the several views of the rawings.

In the drawings, 5 is a casing consistin of sides 6 and 7, a top 8 and a back 9. door 10 is hinged to the side 7 of the casing by means of hinges 11, a spring in the hinges not being shown in the drawin s. The door 10 has a horizontal flange 12 t ereon which, when the door is closed, projects into the interior of the casing and constitutes a bottom therefor. Said flange is rovided with a recessed o ening 13 throu which the handles of toot brushes 14 pro ect when the door is closed. The interior of the eastaken on ad acent to ing 5 is subdivided into compartments 15, 16 and 17 by a horizontal partition 18 and by a vertical partition 19. The horizontal partition 18 is provided with slots 18 which open into the compartments 16 and 17. The front of the compartment is closed b means of a door 20 hin ed at 21 to the horizontal partition 18. T is door is also provided with slots 22 and the door 10 is provided with perforations 23 which ali with all the compartments 15, 16 and 1 The door 20 is normally closed by means of springs in the hinges 21, not shown in the drawings, and the same is true of the door 10.

A member of porous material 24 is located in the com artment 15 and a cap 25 constituting a cl dsure has screw-threaded engagement with a neck 8 on the casing, so that the cap 25 may be removed and deodorizing material, preferably in liquid form, may then be poured upon the member 24 which will absorb the same and the cap 25 is then screwed on to the neck 8 of the casing until it is necessary to renew the deodorizing material.

The brush 14 is held in position in the casing by-means of a bracket 26 perferably formed of spring metal, consisting of a base 27 rigidly fastened to the side 6 of the casing and having an arm 28 projecting approximately at right an les thereto and t e back 9 of t e casing. The arm 28 has a U-shaped recessed rtion' 29 ada ted to receive a portion of t e handle of t e brush 14. Another bracket of like construction is provided. in the compartment 17, the base of which is preferably fastened to the partition 19, although it may be fastened to the side 7 of the casing, if so desired;

The manner in which the tooth brush container is utilized is as follows :-The porous member 24 is saturated with deodorizing material and inserted in the compartment 15by opening the door 10 and then opening the door 20. The tooth brush is positioned in the compartment 16, or in the compartment 17, or two brushes may be ositioned in said compartments 16 and 17 y pushing the handle of the brush under the free end of the arm 28 of the bracket 26 forcing the same away from the back of the casin at its free end and allowing the handle 0 the brush to enter the recessed removed from the bracket 26 by moving.

the brush along the back of the casing and thus springing the arm 28 of the bracket 26 toward the front and allowing the brush to be removed, When it is desired to renew the supply of deodorizing material in the porous material 24, it may be done as hereinbefore described, by removing the plug 25 and pouring the deodorizing material on to said porous member.

When the doors 20 and 10 are closed, it will be obvious that the handles of the brushes l i'located in the compartments l6 and 17, will project downwardly throu 11 the opening 13 in the flange 12 of t e door 10.

It is evident that a circulation of air will take place through the casing by passing throu h the openings 23 in the door 10 and t rough the openings 22 in the door 20 and through; the openings 18' in the horizontal artition 18 and thence through the recesse opening 13 in the bottom flange 12 of the door 10. The air thus circulatin from the compartment 15, which is filed with the aroma of the deodorizing material, will circulate through the compartments 16 and. 17 and will pass out into the room in which the container is located, thus deodorizing and sterilizing the tooth brushes and at the same time deodorizing the room in which the container is placed.

While I have described the material which is placed in the container as being a deodorizing material, it may be either a deodorizing material or a disinfecting ma.

terial or a deodorizing and disinfecting material both, and the word deodorizing is used with this meaning both in the specification and in the claims. Preferably the deodorizing material is a liquid material and is poured on to the orous member as hereinbefore described, ut it is evident that without departing from the spirit of my invention the deodorizing material may be in the form of a powder or a paste.

I claim:

1. A tooth brush container having, in combination, a casing, means to positlon a tooth brush therein, a porous member adapted to contain deodorizin material and located in said container, a cor hinged to said casing and a horizontal flange on said door constituting a bottom for said casing when said door is closed.

2. A tooth brush container having, in combination, a casing, means to position a tooth brush thereln, a porous member adapted to contain deodorizi material and located in said container, a cor hinged to said casing and a horizontal flange on said door constituting a bottom for said casing when said door is closed, said flange being provided with a recessed openin through which the handle of a tooth bl'llSl located in said casing may nroiect when the door is closed.

3. A tooth brush container having, in combination, a casing, a horizontal partition provided with openings and dividing said casing into upper and lower com artments and a vertical partition sub-dividing said lower compartment into two parts, means to position a tooth brush in each of said lower compartments, deodorizing mas terial located in said upper compartment.

4. A tooth brush container having, in combination, a casing, a horizontal partition provided with openings and dividing said casing into upper and lower compartments, a vertical partition sub-dividing said lower compartment into two parts, means to position a tooth brush in each of said lower compartments, deodorizing material located in said upper compartment, the bottom of said casing being open, a door hinged to the front of said casing, and a horizontal flange on said door constituting a bot tom for said casing when said door is closed.

5. A tooth brush container having, in combination, a casing, flghOI'lZOIlttll partition provided with openings and dividing said casing into upper and lower compartments, a vertcal partition sub-dividingsaid lower compartment into two parts, means to position a tooth brush in each of said lower compartments, deodorizing material located in said upper compartment, the bottom of said casing being open, a door bin (1 to the front of said casing, and a horizontal flange on said door constituting a bottom for said casing when said door is closed, said door being provided with perforations aligning with said upper compartment.

6. A tooth brush container having, in combination, a casing, a horizontal partition sub-dividing the interior of said casin into upper and lower compartments said horizontal partition bein provided with openings, a door closin t e front of said upper compartment and ing provided with openings therein and another door hinged to said casing adapted to close the front of said casing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES BASH. Witnesses:

CHARLES S. Gooomo, FRANKLIN E. Low. 

